/noclip's YouTube discovery has dropped off a cliff in 2025 so just gonna keep posting this as it's one of our most anticipated projects in years. Also we're really proud of it. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...

For folks who don't do martial arts: If you see someone kicking above the waist, it's probably bullshit. The few that do this effectively like Muay Thai, Capoeira, or Tae Kwon Do are designed around either creating openings to use kicks to counterstrike or distracting you because it's REALLY UNSAFE.

I want to make a lore-stuffed video game that uses your computer's system clock and geolocation data to ensure that the true ending which reveals what's REALLY going on will unlock only while speedrunning it on stage at GDQ.

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.

We are assembling a DREAM TEAM get your portfolios ready 🙏

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

if you like Tony Hawk, Jet Set Radio and Densha de Go then you'll LOVE Denshattack!

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship. Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!

I think one of the crucial marks of a skilled game designer is being capable of recognizing when a game doesn't appeal to them personally but *being able to build a critical lens to evaluate how its design works or doesn't for the people it WAS meant to appeal to*. It demonstrates mental agility.

Non-US folks should really do this survey, the last question is about whether you’ve cancelled travel plans to the US or are reconsidering travel plans due to current policies. GDC needs to know this, maybe some talks could go online live with enough feedback? Maybe they could even lobby? Who knows!

Unfortunately I suspect as union activity gains momentum and popular support in this broken industry we will continue to see studios ramp up their union busting efforts. Be smart: practice good infosec, read up on typical union-busting tactics, and most importantly: don’t let them scare you.

Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them. I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.

Friends!! The Poly Fighter playtest is live!! Please sign up, play, and give us ALL of your feedback!! RTs are appreciated!! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

not like screenwriting takes no skill but "more than a video game"... dog i'd like to see you fucking try. get your ass in yarnspinner. let's see your unreal blueprints bitch

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

“Gagging”

Whenever I get asked why men can't attend most women in games events, I often have to point out there's always going to be that one guy who can't shut the fuck up about how much of an ally he is, and the women are too polite to tell him to fuck off. Because there is always that one guy

The "some" he refers to is over $500,000 raised by Ironmouse for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Since the money was raised as a component of a subathon and would come through as Twitch revenue, VShojo was supposed to process the funds and... they just didn't. They spent it, instead.

(1/2) One thing that frustrates me about when folks discuss tech or CS degrees and say "it was/will be obsolete by graduation" is that a competent CS program isn't about learning specific software or programming languages, it's about giving you a framework to learn and adapt to new ones rapidly.

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This is why I started making YouTube videos - a lot of what I wanted to say I felt shouldn't be gated by conference pricing. While I have offered to be on panels this year, I think we should be moving toward making things as open-source as possible in this current climate especially my GOSH.

Coalition building is so hard because its clear that people believe everyone in red states deserve to die, have no understanding of actual demographics or gerrymandering and NOW they're rooting for children to not be found in a flood. "Empathy for thee but not for me" is the resist lib playbook

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

not going to quote-dunk because i don't think the person deserves it if you want more 'toby fox' developers there needs to be a support system that catches the 99% of people who will not make the next undertale failure needs to not be catastrophic to finances for success to be possible

One mistake people make with these letters is assume they're written for humans, but they're not. There's no contrast. They're written for shareholders, & for them, this text is just a non-stop parade of good news. Record numbers? All verticals up? Layoffs?! What a feast, for them, what a feast.

Your options for self-funded game dev becoming a sustainable career: 1. Have existing money or income. or 2. Get extremely lucky while doing everything perfectly.

HELP FUND QGCON 2025! This has been a terrible year for fundraising around the world. We are facing a budget shortfall, & we need YOUR help to keep QGCon affordable and free! www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

Harvard hired a researcher to look into its connection to slavery, and then allegedly fired the researcher for finding too many enslaved people www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

In higher education, it is exceedingly rare for anyone planning or teaching any of your classes to have any formal training in education or learning sciences. They are almost all repeating things they experienced as students or saw elsewhere and adjusting based on audits and simple trial and error.

We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv

"We're cosplaying as the 2000s, when these things meant something and were built for the occasion, even though literally everything around us--the economy, the industry, the platforms and ways we learn about and experience games--has changed radically."

working on an indie game is wild because you just get to be like “woah cool idea man, we should do that!” whereas every idea in AAA requires a minimum of three highly detailed PowerPoints presented to various managers in escalating order of seniority over the course of six months (and they say no)

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

BREAKING: We have reached a historic first tentative contract agreement with Microsoft! cwa-union.org/news/release...

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

WHOOOF READ THIS #gamedev

We spend years working hard, burning out, all for it to one day vanish because some guy in a suit changed his mind. And for what? A billion-dollar company to get a tax write-off? The devs at Cliffhanger deserved better, and we as both players and developer's can't stand for this anymore.